Distant View of Whitbarrow Scar, Westmoreland.

Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell. Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. Feb.y, 1, 1816. Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut. A landscape, with two boats sailing on a lake to the left, and rocky mountain range of Whitbarrow Scar in the background. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
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